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A requirements specification model for a product line
(2005) Kabanda, Salah Kemilembe
This research work focuses on developing a new requirement engineering model (RSPL) based on a Model Driven Architecture and Web-tier application framework, to support automatic and interactive requirements generation and specification when creating families of systems. In realizing the model, two goals were targeted namely (i) to construct a requirement engineering model that support automatic transformation of domain features into actor-specific requirements; and (ii) to design and implement an interactive web based requirement engineering tool that demonstrates the requirements generation and specification process for a product line. The result obtained is twofold: (i) a model driven architecture for rapid requirements generation and specification for a product line that reduces costs and development time; (ii) tool implementation based on a web tier application framework that supports different client and actor types. In conclusion, the study is a contribution to a recently advocated idea that requirements generation and specification for product line development could be model-driven. The result shows that the idea is promising with respect to requirement reuse and improving communication barriers among members of a system development team.